While Daniels was chatting about the smash 1994 comedy — saying, “We knew 14-year-old boys would love it, but I wasn’t prepared for the guys in their 70s with the tuxedo and the martini and the portfolio coming up and going, ‘”Dumb and Dumber” might be the best movie I know of,’ ” — Carrey appeared with a giant hug for Daniels.

Sitting next to his onscreen partner in crime, Carrey, 56, quipped of the surprise, “I thought for sure they’d tell him and it’s great that they didn’t, because I wanted to come out here and say it in front of the world: You’re in town and you don’t call me?! Not an email, nothing!”

“I thought about it,” Daniels, 63, said with a chuckle, adding, “We like each other!”

The bromance is mutual.

“I love being around him … I watch everything he does, he’s incredible — the most versatile actor working today, unbelievable all the things he does,” Carrey said.

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in “Dumb and Dumber”New Line Cinema

Speaking to Daniels directly, he added, “And I especially enjoy watching you do interviews because I know you love them. Especially the parts where you talk about how working with me changed the course of your life. That I enjoy more than anything.”

Daniels said of working with Carrey, “You grab on to the tornado that is Jim Carrey and you hang on, and it was such a joy!”

The pair discussed Daniels’ casting, as Carrey wanted the Harry to his Lloyd to be an actor, not a comedian — though it wasn’t necessarily Daniels’ theatrical chops that sold Carrey on hiring him.

“When I saw him, there was a tingling in my groin,” Carrey said with a grin. “As soon as we started reading together, it was a real relationship. Dustin Hoffman called me and he said, ‘That’s the most real relationship, buddy relationship, I’ve seen in movies in decades.’ And I went, ‘Get out of here, who is this?’ ”